Robert Walch: Photos recall life in the Salinas Valley

12:39 AM,
Feb. 16, 2013

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Robert Walch
For The Salinas Californian

Local connection: Margaret Clovis, historian for the Monterey County Parks Department and curator of more than 30 exhibits on rural life in Monterey County, brings together a collection of black-and-white photos of life in the Salinas Valley.

Content: From the early Spanish Mission period of the Salinas Valley to about the 1920s, this pictorial history charts life in one of the premier agricultural areas in the nation. At one time vast herds of cattle roamed the area, but after a devastating drought in the ...